Thrift in anthropology: between thriftiness and wasting

Thursday, October 18
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–13:00 SESSION 1
Chair: Petr Skalník (University of Hradec Králové)
Martin Hájek (Charles University)
The semantic structure and dynamic of a discourse of low consumption Juraj Buzalka (Komensky University)
On thrift and the bent space-time of social exclusion in the Czech Republic
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
Brizolit collective (University of West Bohemia)
On thrift and the bent space-time of social exclusion in the Czech Republic
Barbora Spalová (Charles University)
Thrift in (postsocialist) monastery: Restraint, thriftiness and sharing as values for monastic communities and society
Discussant: Catherine Alexander (Durham University)
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–17:45 SESSION 2
Chair: Stephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota)
Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková (Masaryk University)
Paying for what should be done by family: Employment of paid domestic workers and thrift in Slovakia
Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford)
Thrift: The gift that keeps giving
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
Thrift, October 18-19, 2018, Pilsen 5
Detelina Tocheva (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Building a house with unpaid labour: the changing meaning of a ‘fictitious commodity’
Discussant: Don Kalb (University of Bergen)
19:00 Official dinner for the participants

Friday, October 19
9:30–12:45 SESSION 3
Chair: Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Richard Wilk (Indiana University)
Thrift, time and moral balancing
Daniel Sosna (University of West Bohemia)
Strange allies? Thriftiness and wastefulness in pursuit of satisfaction
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
Tomasz Rakowski (University of Warsaw)
Three dimensions of thrift
Discussant: David Henig (Utrecht University)
12:45–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–16:30 SESSION 4
Final wrap-up led by Stephen Gudeman and followed by general discussion